Little Blue House

Verse 1

There’s a little blue house in the back of my mind

Where the clocks grow flowers and the doors unwind

I keep all my summers in a plastic bag With a photograph of a girl I almost had

And the moon came down in its dirty white shoes

Said, “I’ve been looking everywhere for you”

I told him I moved somewhere under the floor

Where the light comes in but it don’t mean much anymore

Pre-Chorus

And I don’t wanna be a ghost I just like the way they float

Nobody asks you where you’ve been When you’re transparent in the wind

Chorus

So I sleep with the windows open Let the planets rearrange my room

There’s a hole in the world where the light gets broken

And I think I left my name there too

Oh, the sky forgot my address

All my stars got the wrong directions If you find me in another life

Leave the porch light on this time

Leave it on this time.

Verse 2

I met a girl who collected the rain

Kept it in jars with the names of her pain She said every storm was a place she’d been

Every rainbow was a door she’d never walked in

We rode our bikes through the end of town

Where the streetlights blink when the sun goes down

And the trees leaned in like they knew our names

But the next day everything looked the same

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Maybe I was never lost

Maybe I just liked the cost

Of being somewhere no one knew With nothing left I had to prove

Chorus

So I sleep with the windows open

Let the planets rearrange my room There’s a hole in the world where the light gets broken

And I think I left my name there too

Oh, the sky forgot my address

All my stars got the wrong directions If you find me in another life

Leave the porch light on this time

Bridge

I put a little ocean in a paper cup Watched the whole damn thing dry up I think that’s how the years go by

Nobody notices the water leaving the sky

And if I turn into a constellation

Don’t call it fate, don’t call it salvation Just point me out to somebody you love And say,

“That one used to live down here with us.”

Final Chorus

Now I sleep with the windows open

Let the blue bleed into my room

I hear the old world slowly closing

Like a song somebody forgot to tune

Oh, the sky forgot my address

But I think I like the disconnection

If you find me in another life

Don't come looking—

Just leave the porch light—

Leave the porch light on this time.

Outro

There’s a little blue house in the back of my mind.

I think somebody lives there now.

I hope they’re doing fine.

I hope they’re doing fine.